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SOLD OUT: Residence at the Elbphilharmonie

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Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 20:00
After last season‘s two-concert guest performance at the river Elbe in Hamburg, our orchestra is looking forward to a veritable »residency« with three programmes in the great hall of the Elbphilharmonie – by the way, already our concerts nos. 6 to 8 in this iconic landmark. Ludwig van Beethoven‘s symphonies are the link between the three programmes, each of which aims to retrace the influence of his music on the composers of the Romantic and Modern eras. This is most... Read full text

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Jakub HrůšaConductor

Program

Symphonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur op. 55 »Eroica«Ludwig van Beethoven
»Ein Heldenleben« Tondichtung op. 40Richard Strauss
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